tron@zhadum.de (Matthias Scheler - Sun Germany - Solaris Development Engineer) writes:
> In article <x71yde9p04.fsf@capsicum.wsrcc.com>,
> 	Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20020417T110116@wsrcc.com> writes:
> > I just built it and can report that it doesn't work for me.  The X
> > server loops wildly in it's configuration routines, chewing
> > up 100% of the CPU.
> 
> I've imported the latest fixes for the MGA driver from the XFree86 sources
> a few minutes ago. Please update your X11 sources in the directory
> "xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga", rebuild the
> server and try again.

Just a quick followup for the archives.  Matthias's fixes along with
playing with the /etc/X11/XF86Config did the trick.

One thing to note is that the new 4.2.0 XFree86 does not output as
much to /var/log/xdm-errors as the previous one.  One now has to look
at /var/log/XFree86.0.log for the full probing/initialization
transcript.

Another thing to watch for is stale modules in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules.
I finally ended up doing a 
        find /usr/X11R6/lib/modules -mtime +10 -print | xargs rm

Upgrading the /etc/X11/XF86Config file has some pitfalls to watch out
for.  I started off with the file created by "XFree86 -config" and
then added some select lines by hand.  One has to be very careful not
to add any xf4.1.0-specific settings.  One of the keyboard settings
that I moved from the 4.1.0 config caused my keyboard to stop working.

I'm still not sure what to do about some of the old 4.1.0 settings
suck as:

    Section "Module"
            ...
            Load "type1"
            Load "freetype"

-wolfgang
-- 
       Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus@dailyplanet.wsrcc.com>
		    http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
Coming soon: GPS mapping tools for Open Systems. http://www.gnomad-mapping.com/

Just to save some other folks the trouble of rediscovering some nice
optional settings, here is my diff from the default ~/XF86Config.new:

--- /home/wolfgang/XF86Config.new.~1~	Fri Apr 19 00:36:18 2002
+++ /etc/X11/XF86Config	Fri Apr 19 09:53:29 2002
@@ -1,8 +1,27 @@
+###############################################################################
+##									     ##
+##	File:     XF86Config						     ##
+##	Author:   Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@capsicum.wsrcc.com>           ##
+##	Created:  Wed Jan  3 00:07:53 PST 2001				     ##
+##	Contents: mga400 and hitachi 803 supreme (capsicum)
+##									     ##
+##	Copyright (c) 2001 Wolfgang Rupprecht.				     ##
+##	All rights reserved.						     ##
+##									     ##
+##	$Id$								     ##
+###############################################################################
+
 Section "ServerLayout"
 	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
+
+	# added these next 4 -wsr
+	Option		"blank time"	"10"	# 10 minutes
+        Option		"standby time"	"20"
+        Option		"suspend time"	"30"
+        Option		"off time"	"60"
 EndSection
 
 Section "Files"
@@ -29,6 +48,8 @@
 Section "InputDevice"
 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
 	Driver      "keyboard"
+# added this next one -wsr
+	Option	    "XkbModel"	"pc104"
 EndSection
 
 Section "InputDevice"
@@ -36,6 +57,9 @@
 	Driver      "mouse"
 	Option	    "Protocol" "wsmouse"
 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/wsmouse0"
+# added these next two -wsr
+	Option 	    "Buttons" "5"
+	Option	    "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
 EndSection
 
 Section "Monitor"
@@ -43,6 +67,10 @@
 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
 	VendorName   "HTC"
 	ModelName    "abea"
+# added these next two by hand -wsr
+	HorizSync       31-115
+	VertRefresh     50-160
+
 	Option	    "DPMS"
 EndSection
 
@@ -90,6 +118,9 @@
 	Identifier "Screen0"
 	Device     "Card0"
 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
+# added this next one  -wsr
+	DefaultDepth 24
+
 	SubSection "Display"
 		Depth     1
 	EndSubSection
@@ -107,6 +138,9 @@
 	EndSubSection
 	SubSection "Display"
 		Depth     24
+# added these next two -wsr
+#		Modes	  "1600x1280" "2048x1536"
+		Modes	  "1600x1200" "2048x1536"
 	EndSubSection
 EndSection